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Beary Christmas
Dec. 25th, 2012 08:53 pmThis was our second Christmas at Fernley House, and Lisa worked very hard today preparing the goose that we bought a few days ago. She decided to treat it about the same way she did the duck she cooked for Thanksgiving, only bigger and thus cooking longer. But before food, there were presents!
( Kuma Bear asks 'Where's mine?' )
With Christmas presents opened in the cold family room, we removed to the living room where the fireplace was making things quite comfortable. Lisa went to the trailer and worked on the Christmas feast, and I dealt with catching up on some things on the computer that I'd let slide through the long holiday weekend.
( Bring on the Roast Beast! )
Although stuffing ourselves with a lovely Christmas dinner would be a good excuse to fall asleep forthwith, we bundled ourselves up and went for a walk. As we left the house, a light snow began to fall, but didn't stick. We went clear down to the Fernley Nugget, where Lisa apparently couldn't lose, walking away from three different slot machines with more money than when she started, albeit about $5 ahead on $20 buy-in.
When we returned home, my blood sugar tested at 89, so I had plenty of "room" to have pumpkin pie and eggnog. Eggnog is typically so sugary that I generally only have one container of it a year, and thus we splurge on the really good stuff: premium nog from Strauss Family Creamery. I try not to think of the expense and remind myself that if it were cheaper, I'd be tempted to buy it more often, which would be a bad thing.
Lisa had been up since the wee hours of the morning and turned in relatively early, but I wanted to get these photos posted. While I was working on that, I looked outside and saw that the light snow had turned to relatively heavy snow. Unfortunately, the broom for keeping the walk cleared was in the trailer. I rushed down there and had to work extra hard to clear the walk since everywhere I stepped had hard-packed the snow.
Unlike the light dusting of snow we've been getting every day or two the past few days, this looks like a pretty serious snowfall by local standards. There's about 5-6 cm accumulated so far, and it's still snowing. I know that's nothing to people who live in serious snow country, including places like Norden in the Sierra Nevada, but Fernley is so dry that we don't expect that much snow. We can deal with it, but keeping the walk cleared is a chore. But hey, after all that pie and eggnog, I need the exercise.
( Kuma Bear asks 'Where's mine?' )
With Christmas presents opened in the cold family room, we removed to the living room where the fireplace was making things quite comfortable. Lisa went to the trailer and worked on the Christmas feast, and I dealt with catching up on some things on the computer that I'd let slide through the long holiday weekend.
( Bring on the Roast Beast! )
Although stuffing ourselves with a lovely Christmas dinner would be a good excuse to fall asleep forthwith, we bundled ourselves up and went for a walk. As we left the house, a light snow began to fall, but didn't stick. We went clear down to the Fernley Nugget, where Lisa apparently couldn't lose, walking away from three different slot machines with more money than when she started, albeit about $5 ahead on $20 buy-in.
When we returned home, my blood sugar tested at 89, so I had plenty of "room" to have pumpkin pie and eggnog. Eggnog is typically so sugary that I generally only have one container of it a year, and thus we splurge on the really good stuff: premium nog from Strauss Family Creamery. I try not to think of the expense and remind myself that if it were cheaper, I'd be tempted to buy it more often, which would be a bad thing.
Lisa had been up since the wee hours of the morning and turned in relatively early, but I wanted to get these photos posted. While I was working on that, I looked outside and saw that the light snow had turned to relatively heavy snow. Unfortunately, the broom for keeping the walk cleared was in the trailer. I rushed down there and had to work extra hard to clear the walk since everywhere I stepped had hard-packed the snow.
Unlike the light dusting of snow we've been getting every day or two the past few days, this looks like a pretty serious snowfall by local standards. There's about 5-6 cm accumulated so far, and it's still snowing. I know that's nothing to people who live in serious snow country, including places like Norden in the Sierra Nevada, but Fernley is so dry that we don't expect that much snow. We can deal with it, but keeping the walk cleared is a chore. But hey, after all that pie and eggnog, I need the exercise.
